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- English Word Palpi Definition pl. of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
- English Word Palpi Definition of Palpus
- English Word Palpicorn Definition One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
- English Word Palpifer Definition Same as Palpiger.
- English Word Palpiform Definition Having the form of a palpus.
- English Word Palpiger Definition That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
- English Word Palpigerous Definition Bearing a palpus.
- English Word Palpitant Definition Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.
- English Word Palpitate Definition To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
- English Word Palpitated Definition of Palpitate
- English Word Palpitating Definition of Palpitate
- English Word Palpitation Definition A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
- English Word Palpless Definition Without a palpus.
- English Word Palpocil Definition A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
- English Word Palprbrate Definition Having eyelids.
- English Word Palpus Definition A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
- English Word Palsgrave Definition A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
- English Word Palsgravine Definition The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
- English Word Palsical Definition Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.
- English Word Palsied Definition Affected with palsy; paralyzed.